Safeguarding DNA Synthesis from Biological Risks Posed by Advanced AI

We will test whether circuits in protein language models can detect function-preserving redesigns of known toxins that evade homology-based DNA-synthesis screen

Travel Grant for Undergrad to present at MICCAI Mechanistic AI Safety Workshop

Seeking travel and registration fee support to present my sole-authored mechanistic audit of medical AI at MICCAI 2026 MI4MedFM workshop at Strasbourg, France

Isolating CBRN Knowledge in LLMs for Safety - Phase 2 (Research)

Expanding proven isolation techniques to high-risk capability domains in Mixture of Expert models

FloraForge: Aesthetic Gene Editing in Petunias

A modular gene-editing platform for engineering new pigment patterns in ornamental plants, starting with a vein-pattern rescue line in petunias.

Orexin Pilot Experiment for Reducing Sleep Need

Testing intranasal orexin-A administration for sleep need reduction: a 2-3 participant self-blinded randomized controlled trial

Clean Indoor Air for Schools

Accelerating the adoption of air filters in every classroom

OpenReg: AI tools for FDA application and reg compliance

A set of AI-powered open-source tools intended to shorten time-to-market for medtech innovators.

AI-assisted low-cost ultrasound scanner

Low-cost wearable ultrasound scanner backed with AI diagnostics available to people at home or in settings where hospitals are inaccessible

Building Effective Giving ecosystem in India

Funding circles and advisory to fund high impact non-profits

human intelligence amplification @ Berkeley Genomics Project

accelerating strong human germline genomic engineering to make lots of geniuses

Investigating the Effects of IF in the reversal of Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus.

RCT with predominantly Asian Indian population and literature review for understanding mechanisms of IF in relation to T2DM

Ahimsa Pharma

Educating about the problem of animal components in pharmaceuticals and providing the solution: animal-free medicine

Preventing Worst Case Pandemics Symposium @ Cambridge

A Cambridge Biosecurity Hub and Cambridge Infectious Diseases Symposium on Avoiding Worst-Case Scenarios

Influenza Pandemic Protection on Day 1 through universal priming vaccines

Pivoting this project, due to stakeholder feedback. Former focus was inclusion of a pre-pandemic strain in a quadrivalent seasonal influenza vaccine

Ozempic for Sleep: Research for Safely Reducing Sleep Needs

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SOTA Public Research Database + Search Tool

Unlocking the paradigm of agents + SQL + compositional vector search

Literature Review: Risks and Rewards of long term ketamine use, by dosage size

What are the risks of ketamine, by dose? Are there any hidden upsides?

Ahimsa Pharma

Educating about the problem of animal components in pharmaceuticals and providing the solution: animal-free medicine

Voice Biomarkers & AI for Neurodegenerative Disease

Support UC Berkeley student-led research into scalable disease detection software

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